Most of the commonly used microgels (MGs) are hydrophilic and tend to form oil-in-water
emulsions. In this review, we discuss the function of MGs at the droplet interface in order to …

Microgels are soft, deformable, permeable, and stimuli-responsive microscopic polymeric
particles that are now emerging as prospective multifunctional soft materials for delivery …

Understanding and controlling degradation of polymer networks on the mesoscale is critical
for a range of applications. We utilize dissipative particle dynamics to capture …

Polymer hydrogels are known to be efficient absorbents of various aqueous solutions. Along
with the hydrophilicity of the polymer network, the presence of specific functional groups is …

In this work, we present core-shell microgels with tailor-made architecture and properties for
the incorporation of palladium nanoparticles. The microgel core consists of poly-N …

The order of mixing a silica sol and buffer solution as a neutralizing agent and the
concentration of an acid catalyst for silica sol formation are of significant importance for the …

Using dissipative particle dynamics, we characterize dynamics of aggregation of molecular
bottlebrushes in solvents of various qualities by tracking the number of clusters, the size of …

Letting free polymers diffuse from solution into a cross-linked polymer gel is often a crucial
processing step in the synthesis of multiphase polymer-based gels, eg, core–shell …

In this research, we studied, in detail, the behavior of common PNIPAM microgels, obtained
through surfactant-free precipitation polymerization, in a number of organic solvents. We …

Self-crosslinking of Tannic acid (TA) was accomplished to obtain poly (tannic acid)(p (TA))
particles in single step, surfactant free media using sodium periodate (NaIO4) as an …